Purim parades “Adeloyada” in Tel-Aviv, 1930s
Purim. Allenby st. Tel Aviv, 1934–1950s
Shared break on sunny Friday afternoon at Tel-Aviv, 25.1.2019
Sukkot, 25 Beit Yoseph st., Tel-Aviv, 1930s
Kitchen healing transformations towards poetic space
Kitchen.
The last place I could imagine the artful as trasformative was the kitchen.
Transformation allowing the flow, the non-visible, the sensed, the intimate, the poetic to emerge.
Participating in these events are (at least) two cameras – digital Canon EOS 550D Serial Number 71230993 and 6×9 Box Tengor 54/2, 1928-34 model, a woman photographer, their surroundings, and the actions taken by each of these participants.
The photographs embody movements in front of the camera, emerging from liminal spaces, of experiences felt but not seen by the eyes.
Monday, January 20, 2014 at 3:33 PM
Canon announces her presence also by the sounds of lens’s movements as she searches the focal point in relation to movements or the space in front of her, and by the monotonous rhythm sound of the shutter.
The photographs were just taken, or more accurately, they became, as part of an event. Both digital and box-camera co-exist in these experiences, performing collaborative exploration of that which cannot be seen by the eyes, but is felt by existence.
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Throughout my childhood and adolescence, the present moment was not a safe place to be in, nor did it feel like being at home.
My mother’s kitchen, 1969-2009:
Emptying my parents’ house (kitchen), 2009
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Lately, the experience of being in the present moment is gradually transformed; and kitchen is the most surprising place for this transformation to emerge: The present moment is cutting vegetables. The present moment is cooking soup. The present moment is mindful eating. The present moment is cleaning the dishes. The present moment is also letting the camera take snapshots of my daily labour.
I breath with my eyes. The camera breathes with her lens and shutter. Digital multiplicity of shots, hundreds of frames per day, or analog layers of exposures on film become kind of blinking.
Views of transformation 2015-2017 (click circles for enlarged images):
2015
2015
2015
2016
2017
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Transformation heals my past.
And finally, for the moment, welcoming new inhabitant:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 12:42 PM
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Frieda’s birthday 7.7.1892
Frieda (age 2?) and her elder brother Fritz, c. 1894
Frieda (age 3?) with her elder brother Fritz, c. 1895?
Frieda and her brothers. Frieda was born just a few days before Walter Benjamin (15.7.1892). While reading Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood around 1900”, I read also on my grandmother’s childhood There are childhood photos of Benjamin and his siblings taken at the very same “Globus Atelier” in Berlin. http://www.historia-viva.net/en/grafiken/03_5_wb_geschwister.jpg
Frieda at 10, her photo on postcard, 1902. Postcard from her brother Fritz.
Frieda Jacobsohn (center) with fellow art students, 1910s
Frieda and her brothers and their mother, Ernestine
Frieda and her brothers with parents, before 1915
Self portrait, Frieda Jacobsohn, before 1915
Ramot Hashavim, Israel
Clinic signs, Tel-Aviv
Frieda and Fritz Mayer, c. 1920
Ktuba – Jewish marriage document, 14.10.1920
Verein Jüdischer Studenten, Berlin im K.J.V. Invitation for foundation celebration, 27.6.1920
October 1933, before leaving Berlin to Palestine
Letter from Fritz to Frieda on her first birthday in Tel Aviv, 1934
Letter from Fritz to Frieda for their 17th anniversary.
Shmuel’s 13th birthday, 1937, Tel-Aviv.
1957. Grandmother Frieda, my mother and I.
Silent creative, nourishing communication.
Frieda’s airport experiences
Welcome back home!
Brandenburger Tor
Watching movie in Tel Aviv, 2016, evokes Frieda’s memories of Berlin 1933
Prenzlauer Str. 46, Berlin
Dr. Fritz Mayer, Dermatology clinic. Was also residence of the family until c. 1930.
Prenzlauer Str. 46 (today Karl-Libknecht-Str.) before corner Wadzeck Str. , in Berlin map, 1932. After the law against Jewish physicians was published (31.3.1933), and “Jude” was written on Dr. Fritz Mayer’s clinic, the family (at that time living in Baumeisterstr. 1, Fridenau) left Germany, to Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine at that time). Here, at the same corner in 2010: building site of RAMADA Hotel, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 32, (Now: H2 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz).
Watch video on finding my grandfather’s medical clinic until 1933 (2010. HEB. ENG sub-titles will be added in future): HighRes video or LowRes video
Ramada Hotel (H2 Hotel), Berlin. 2015.
What Frieda saw in Weimar years: reflections/memories, Tel Aviv, 2016
Frieda watches movie. Yom Hashoa, 5.5.2016: From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
http://www.stih-schnock.de/remembrance
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Postcard created in July 2015, in collaboration with Z., who drew the map of our walk through the Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin, October 2014.
Frieda
Frieda is this 1929~ Box Camera at the bottom right corner.
She is named after the woman in this photo: Berlin-born photographer Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn, whom she accompanied during the last years before forced to leave Berlin in 1933, through her voyage to Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, and finding her way there.
In 2009 many of the photos she took were exhibited in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn was my grandmother.
Since October 2014, Frieda’s Box Camera takes me to see the world through her eyes. Experiences from long ago and other lands are still stored in her memory. She finds and shows me new layers of experience, in those same places –– in my hometown Tel Aviv, in Frieda’s hometown Berlin, and some new ones. Watch video here.
She senses times and spaces.
She offers images as a way of communication throughout experiences.
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